Tuesday Burrito Blogging

Reader D.J. emails appropos the breakfast burrito incident to note that he's the proprietor of burritophile.net, a website devoted to all things burrito.

UPDATE: I should mention that I am prepared to publish "view from your breakfast" photos (now that I'm not paying for bandwidth, why not waste it?) if you have any interesting regional specialties. The rarely seen Asian breakfast, in particular, would be appreciated.

Comments

Awesome.

Posted by JP | May 1, 2007 2:15 PM

I am on my way to Vietnam at the end of the week, so you've got yourself a deal.

Posted by AJ | May 1, 2007 2:47 PM

We never did learn where in Santa Fe, NM said burrito was consumed, did we?

Posted by Al | May 1, 2007 2:49 PM

The authentic Asian breakfast I saw in Taiwan was a very thin rice gruel plus a you-tiao (= "grease-stick"), a kind of deep-fried pastry. Not photogenic.

Posted by John Emerson | May 1, 2007 2:51 PM

Note to self: Going forward, wait until being sure that stomach is truly calm and settled before turning on Matt's blog first thing in the morning

Posted by Ethel-to-Tilly | May 1, 2007 2:52 PM

Traditional Japanese breakfasts are fantastic.

Posted by Fried Salmon | May 1, 2007 2:58 PM

The authentic Asian breakfast I saw in Taiwan was a very thin rice gruel

Congee. Yuck. I recall a breakfast I once had in Shanghai of congee with a bunch of preserved eggs. Double yuck. Thank goodness you can get things like yogurt all over the world.

Posted by Al | May 1, 2007 3:30 PM

Scrapple and eggs. MMM!

Posted by cheflovesbeer | May 1, 2007 3:41 PM

A Japanese host family made me cereal and eggs every morning. But they also may have researched and purchased American staples in advance of my going there. As with most of my experiences there, it's kind of hard to know what the hell was going on.

Posted by Sam L. | May 1, 2007 4:45 PM

Ah, AJ, I envy your experience ahead.

Vietnam doesn't have a prototypically Asian breakfast, it has its own distinctively Vietnamese breakfast -- pho.

Also for lunch or dinner.

So terrific it's in the blood. My adopted Vietnamese, hamburger and pizza-loving daughter's favorite meal is still noodle soup (including, of course, but not limited to pho).

Posted by Steady Eddie | May 1, 2007 4:56 PM

So who's gonna email be the pics?

Posted by Matthew Yglesias | May 1, 2007 6:29 PM

Is there a prototypical Asian breakfast? I could name probably 5 different breakfasts that are typical of some region's Han Chinese, without including whatever China's ethnic minorities eat, or going out of country to look at what they eat in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Korea, and Japan.

The Taiwanese seem to like sweetened warm soy milk served as a soup, with various deep fried accessories, including the long fried things. Also, the congee stuff seems fairly common in Southern China. The Cantonese love their dim sum on weekends, but that's more like brunch than breakfast. When I spent a week in Shanghai I would have a field day with breakfast - I'd eat all sorts of fried stuff and probably spend less than $1 for my fill.

I think I get unreasonably excited about food, especially regional specialties. Maybe we should start talking about European breakfasts now.

Posted by Shane | May 1, 2007 8:21 PM

"noodle soup (including, of course, but not limited to pho)"

Technically speaking, pho ( phở ) is not noodle soup, but rather noodles (with bits of meat and other stuff) served in broth (which was not traditionally consumed)

Posted by michael farris | May 2, 2007 3:46 AM

See here for Cambodia's breakfast of pork and rice, or 'bai sach chrouk'.

http://www.phnomenon.com/index.php/cambodian-food/phnom-penh/pork-and-rice-the-national-breakfast/

For my money, Malaysia is home to Asia's tastiest breakfasts. You can opt for spicy/savory with roti canai and curry, or go sweet with kaya (a thick coconut/egg jam) on toast. Teh tarik, or black tea 'pulled' with sweetened condensed milk, is a typical morning drink.

Malaysia, truly Asia. The song doesn't lie.

Posted by Ayelish | May 2, 2007 7:35 AM

When I was a teenager staying in Japan for a month, my host family went out and bought milk and cornflakes especially for me, which is great, considering that my preferred breakfast is cold cereal, though I did start craving something besides Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

The real problem was the cornflakes interacting with the smell of the pickles or natto (fermented soybeans) that my host was inevitably eating.

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